X Portuguese Congress of Sociology

Portuguese Sociology has a role to play in analyzing the emerging reconfigurations of the public sphere, particularly with regard to the centrality of behaviors, attitudes and opinions constructed in and through cyberspace, although with intense offline repercussions, encompassing the domain of what is commonly nicknamed of “social networks”. To a certain extent, it is important to perceive the metamorphoses of the information and knowledge society, particularly when social practices based on the dissociation between the protocols of construction of the facts and the molding of opinions and emotions are so often established as a single criterion of argumentative relevance.

As good journalism seeks the truth of facts, good sociology requires research, deconstruction, and inquiry to build a factuality, even if it is provisional and subject to verification. If sociology can be defined as the attempt to understand the logic of social practices of agents, incorporating the meaning they give them, then the X Portuguese Congress of Sociology will certainly be a memorable moment of this collective effort for an open public sphere, critical and rational.

As good journalism seeks the truth of facts, good sociology requires research, deconstruction, and inquiry to build a factuality, even if it is provisional and subject to verification. If sociology can be defined as the attempt to understand the logic of social practices of agents, incorporating the meaning they give them, then the X Portuguese Congress of Sociology will certainly be a memorable moment of this collective effort for an open public sphere, critical and rational.

As usual we will have the communications sessions and posters submitted for evaluation of the Sections and Thematic Areas, Plenary and Semi-plenary Sessions, Book Launches and Exhibition of Research Centers and Publishers.